Commonwealth v. Matos’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Neder v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Harrison v. United States · Commonwealth v. Zone Book, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hoever, knowing a person to be a prostitute, shall live or derive support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of his [ (i.e., that person's) ] prostitution ... or shall share in such earnings [or] proceeds ... shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of five years.... The sentence of imprisonment ... shall not be reduced to less than two years ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that could rationally lead to a contrary finding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.